Democrat Jon Ossoff Signals Support for Georgia Lockdown: ‘It’s Time to Trust the Experts’

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Democrat Jon Ossoff Signals Support for Georgia Lockdown: ‘It’s Time to Trust the Experts’

Ashley Oliver 30 Nov 2020

Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Jon Ossoff said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that he would support a statewide lockdown of businesses to address coronavirus spread if public health experts indicate a need for “stronger mitigation measures,” remarking that “it’s time to trust the experts.”

Ossoff, who is challenging Republican Sen. David Perdue in Georgia’s race for U.S. Senate, told CNN host Dana Bash, “The problem we’ve had all year is that politicians have been suppressing and ignoring public health advice. It’s time to trust the experts, listen to public health professionals in a public health crisis.”

Bash said the White House Coronavirus Task Force has already indicated that “this is the moment to dramatically increase mitigation” due to a resurgence of the virus. Bash asked Ossoff, “So would you support harsher restrictions in Georgia, like closing restaurants and businesses temporarily?”

The Georgia Democrat responded, “I think we should follow the expertise of public health experts like those of the CDC, which is based here in Georgia, and if that is the consensus of the public health community, we need to take that advice very seriously.”

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[txradioguy]

The NRCC should send Osoff a thank you card and a nice selection of cheeses for giving them the free advertisement.

[PeteS in CA]

Looking at the daily new cases and daily deaths charts here, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/georgia/ , it looks like GA just crested a news cases wave that was much less severe than in July, while daily deaths are significantly lower than they were in August. The data does not support his virtue-signaling posturing for a shutdown.